The Archetype of Initiation: The Dynamics of Transformation in the Human Psyche

In this program, Dr. Moore gives an overview of his three decades of research on the archetype of initiation and its role in our personal, cultural, and spiritual lives. He describes the ways in which this archetype organizes much of our experience without our realizing it. Utilizing the phenomenology of Mircea Eliade, the anthropology of Victor Turner, Edinger's classical Jungian theory, and his own neo-Jungian structural psychoanalysis, Dr. Moore gives a framework to raise our level of consciousness with regard to the initiatory processes which are constellating in us at this time. Through working deeply on this topic, we can hope to transform what Jung called "repressed individuation" to a more conscious engagement with our individuation process.

Dr. Robert Moore (1942-2016) was Distinguished Service Professor of Psychology, Psychoanalysis and Spirituality in the Graduate Center of the Chicago Theological Seminary where he was the Founding Director of the new Institute for Advanced Studies in Spirituality and Wellness. An internationally recognized psychoanalyst and consultant in private practice in Chicago, he served as a Training Analyst at the C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago and was Director of Research for the Institute for Integrative Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy and the Chicago Center for Integrative Psychotherapy. Author and editor of numerous books in psychology and spirituality, he lectured internationally on his formulation of a neo-Jungian psychoanalysis and integrative psychotherapy. His publications includeTHE ARCHETYPE OF INITIATION: Sacred Space, Ritual Process and Personal Transformation; THE MAGICIAN AND THE ANALYST: The Archetype of the Magus in Occult Spirituality and Jungian Psychology, andFACING THE DRAGON: Confronting Personal and Spiritual Grandiosity.